^{6 [a] (A)}“You are the Lord, you alone. ^(B)You have made heaven, ^(C)the heaven of heavens, ^(D)with all their host, ^(E)the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; ^(F)and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

¹⁶ “O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, ^(A)enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; ^(B)you have made heaven and earth.

The Creation of the World

1 In the ^(A)beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

¹⁴ Behold, ^(A)to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, ^(B)the earth with all that is in it.

⁴ “Hear, O Israel: ^(A)The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^[a]

¹¹ Thus shall you say to them: ^(A)“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth ^(B)shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”^[a]

Besides Me There Is No God